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Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Good Hindustani Clasical site on Blogger
http://hindustaniclassical-anand.blogspot.com
Very good cross Raag and cross Artist collection... best part is that you can play stuff right there...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Delhi Blasts!! Do we really care?
I cannot express how disturbing are the Delhi blats yesterday for me! I put a small blog note on Bangalore, Ahmadabad and Jaipur Blasts... what i am worried is not the deaths and the threats, but the political apathy to take any action...
Interestingly I am in US right now for a short business visit and experienced the social and political will-power on the 9/11 blasts.. It’s already been 9 years and US has managed to virtually destroy 2 countries relating them to the blast... while the moral right about that still remains as a question, it at least gives some comfort to the citizens. And more importantly, there have been not a single terror-attack on US since then....
Now let's look at India... Mumbai Blasts about 15 years back, then the parliament, then Delhi, again Mumbai, then Hyderabad, then Bangalore, then Ahmadabad, then Jaipur, then again Delhi… I am sure I am missing out on few other names… easily 500+ lives lost and innumerable injured and will suffer for their whole life… but doe we care? What has “India” done apart from a common message from each party and each government that “Terrorism will not be tolerated”. So, does this statement alone drive away the terrorists? They are striking at will at any place of their choice… the feeling is so disturbing.
I still remember seeing the board conveying Mumbai blast on a main road in Pune 15 years back. My father used to go daily to Mumbai and we were just crossing our fingers till late night to get a message from him. I do not want to go through that hell and don’t want any Indian (or anyone in the world for that matter)… but who cares… I don’t even remember how many bomb blasts happened in India in last one year…how can I keep track of it when all the newspapers and news channels want me to divert my attention to “entertainment” which has gained more importance over the “national and individual security”… but again… as long as your relative is lost… who cares, and if you loose your relative, who cares to listen to you?
Is there any Indian Politician who is ready to take national security seriously instead of caring about increasing his/her personal wealth?? Sphere: Related Content
Interestingly I am in US right now for a short business visit and experienced the social and political will-power on the 9/11 blasts.. It’s already been 9 years and US has managed to virtually destroy 2 countries relating them to the blast... while the moral right about that still remains as a question, it at least gives some comfort to the citizens. And more importantly, there have been not a single terror-attack on US since then....
Now let's look at India... Mumbai Blasts about 15 years back, then the parliament, then Delhi, again Mumbai, then Hyderabad, then Bangalore, then Ahmadabad, then Jaipur, then again Delhi… I am sure I am missing out on few other names… easily 500+ lives lost and innumerable injured and will suffer for their whole life… but doe we care? What has “India” done apart from a common message from each party and each government that “Terrorism will not be tolerated”. So, does this statement alone drive away the terrorists? They are striking at will at any place of their choice… the feeling is so disturbing.
I still remember seeing the board conveying Mumbai blast on a main road in Pune 15 years back. My father used to go daily to Mumbai and we were just crossing our fingers till late night to get a message from him. I do not want to go through that hell and don’t want any Indian (or anyone in the world for that matter)… but who cares… I don’t even remember how many bomb blasts happened in India in last one year…how can I keep track of it when all the newspapers and news channels want me to divert my attention to “entertainment” which has gained more importance over the “national and individual security”… but again… as long as your relative is lost… who cares, and if you loose your relative, who cares to listen to you?
Is there any Indian Politician who is ready to take national security seriously instead of caring about increasing his/her personal wealth?? Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Floods in Pune (My Society)
I came to US today and realized that it has rained cats and dogs in Pune after I started on 9th night...
My building is all over in the news and the access road to the building is cut off.. fortunately my family is safe and moved my parent's place...
I had a major function in my house on 8th.. what a close call.. would have been a clear mess had the rains come 2 days earlier
here is a news article about the floods
Here are some of the Photos:
Pune, August 11
Pregnant woman, elderly people and 1,000 others stuck in one housing society
Please help us, cries Sunita Dhawar of Whistling Palms Society at Kaspate Vasti near Wakad.
“Water from the river has flooded the road leading
to our society. Around 1,000 residents have been stuck in the building
since yesterday afternoon. I am nine months pregnant and may need
medical attention anytime. The lives of many senior citizens are also
at risk. What if they need to go to the hospital?” Dhawar said on
Monday.
Fear is the pervading emotion among the 1,000
residents of Whistling Palms, as the road leading to their society has
been flooded since Sunday afternoon.
Due to heavy rains for the past two days, the
water from the river Mula has flooded a few societies in Kaspate Vasti.
“Nisarg Pooja Society, Yashda wedding hall and a crematorium are also
flooded,” said Gokul Tilekar, a resident of Vishal Nager.
“We are surviving on noodles and biscuits for two
days now. Two of my friends staying with me are stuck outside the
society and have no way of coming in. The municipal authorities should
immediately to address this situation. There is a supermarket near the
compound of our building, but the goods in his shop are almost
exhausted,” says Tushar Pawar of Whistling Palms.
An uninterrupted downpour for the second
consecutive day in Pune and its surrounding areas wreaked havoc on
people in parts of the city. Particularly, residents of-Whistling Palms
and Nisargapuja- two housing societies in Wakad, were turned helpless
and had no choice but to stay indoors. The situation was no different
in Madhuban Society in Sangvi.
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) authorities
shifted 478 families along the Mula-Mutha riverbanks in the last two
days. Of them, 200 families were from Bopodi area. Other areas included
Patil Estate slums (37 families), Adarshnagar (177), Shantinagar (70).
The chief of the flood control cell of the PMC,
Pravin Ashtikar, said, “We are being kept on or toes. We are
continuously tracking the discharge from all the dams around Pune and
taking necessary steps. The fire brigade, too, has been asked to be
ready to tackle the situation.”
Ajay Chaudhari of Whistling Palms said, “Our
water woes started on Sunday afternoon, when the rainwater logged
around our society in huge amounts. Today, I had to skip going to
office, as it needed to wade through shoulder-high water. Even if we
manage to get out of it, the public transport too, is not reliable.”
Amol Govindwar and his wife, both software professionals working in
Geometrics and Cognizant respectively, had to take a day off from their
work for the same reason.
Sphere: Related Content
My building is all over in the news and the access road to the building is cut off.. fortunately my family is safe and moved my parent's place...
I had a major function in my house on 8th.. what a close call.. would have been a clear mess had the rains come 2 days earlier
here is a news article about the floods
Here are some of the Photos:
Pune, August 11
Pregnant woman, elderly people and 1,000 others stuck in one housing society
Please help us, cries Sunita Dhawar of Whistling Palms Society at Kaspate Vasti near Wakad.
“Water from the river has flooded the road leading
to our society. Around 1,000 residents have been stuck in the building
since yesterday afternoon. I am nine months pregnant and may need
medical attention anytime. The lives of many senior citizens are also
at risk. What if they need to go to the hospital?” Dhawar said on
Monday.
Fear is the pervading emotion among the 1,000
residents of Whistling Palms, as the road leading to their society has
been flooded since Sunday afternoon.
Due to heavy rains for the past two days, the
water from the river Mula has flooded a few societies in Kaspate Vasti.
“Nisarg Pooja Society, Yashda wedding hall and a crematorium are also
flooded,” said Gokul Tilekar, a resident of Vishal Nager.
“We are surviving on noodles and biscuits for two
days now. Two of my friends staying with me are stuck outside the
society and have no way of coming in. The municipal authorities should
immediately to address this situation. There is a supermarket near the
compound of our building, but the goods in his shop are almost
exhausted,” says Tushar Pawar of Whistling Palms.
An uninterrupted downpour for the second
consecutive day in Pune and its surrounding areas wreaked havoc on
people in parts of the city. Particularly, residents of-Whistling Palms
and Nisargapuja- two housing societies in Wakad, were turned helpless
and had no choice but to stay indoors. The situation was no different
in Madhuban Society in Sangvi.
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) authorities
shifted 478 families along the Mula-Mutha riverbanks in the last two
days. Of them, 200 families were from Bopodi area. Other areas included
Patil Estate slums (37 families), Adarshnagar (177), Shantinagar (70).
The chief of the flood control cell of the PMC,
Pravin Ashtikar, said, “We are being kept on or toes. We are
continuously tracking the discharge from all the dams around Pune and
taking necessary steps. The fire brigade, too, has been asked to be
ready to tackle the situation.”
Ajay Chaudhari of Whistling Palms said, “Our
water woes started on Sunday afternoon, when the rainwater logged
around our society in huge amounts. Today, I had to skip going to
office, as it needed to wade through shoulder-high water. Even if we
manage to get out of it, the public transport too, is not reliable.”
Amol Govindwar and his wife, both software professionals working in
Geometrics and Cognizant respectively, had to take a day off from their
work for the same reason.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sanskrit and Marathi Online Dictionary
Found this great resource... works great if you install unicode fonts.. you can actually see words in Sanskrit and the meanings in English.
Also found Marathi Dictionary on the same site (infact two of them)
If you have unicode fonts installed, it actually shows you the "मरठी" names and their english meanings... Fundu...
Links:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/apte/ :
Sanskrit
There are dictionaries for lots of other languages available on the same site.
Sanskrit
There are dictionaries for lots of other languages available on the same site.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Top Indian Sites
http://www.india-topsites.com/india/
http://www.bestindiansites.com/
Good listing of websites in india Sphere: Related Content
http://www.bestindiansites.com/
Good listing of websites in india Sphere: Related Content
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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